Found in New Guinea on trees in range forests at elevations around 1300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with close set, cylindrical, subparellel tothe rhizome pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, oblanceolate-ligulate, minutely apiculate, narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, short, single flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the flowers are brown-red with orange yellow tips and darker stripes inside and the lip is dark red with an orange yellow tip.